Structural effects of charge destabilization and amino acid substitutions in amyloid fragments of CsgA

N Szulc, M Gąsior-Głogowska, P Żyłka… - … Acta Part A: Molecular …, 2024 - Elsevier
The most studied functional amyloid is the CsgA, major curli subunit protein, which is
produced by numerous strains of Enterobacteriaceae. Although CsgA sequences are highly …

Red emissive fluorescent carbon dots based on ternary carbon source for imaging α-synuclein fibrils

J Zhang, WC Luo, Y Zhang, X Li, M Jiang… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The misfolding and aggregation of α-synuclein monomers usually cause the occurrence and
development of Parkinson's disease (PD). It is important to develop effective methods for …

Lysine ε-aminolysis and incorporation of sulfhydryl groups into human brain tau 4R/1N and 306VQIVYK311 enhances the formation of beta structures and toxicity

F Salmani, M Mohammadi, R Seif, SH Khatami… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
In the present study, we investigated the effects of N-homocysteine thiolactone (tHcy)
modification on expressed and purified tau protein and the synthesized VQIVYK target …

Collagen Mimicry with a Short Collagen Model Peptide

S Mukherjee, A Sundarapandian… - Macromolecular …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Mimicking triple helix and fibrillar network of collagen through collagen model peptide
(CMP) with short GPO tripeptide repeats is a great challenge. Herein, a minimalistic CMP …

FF Activates Nucleation for Aggregation in Aqueous Medium: A Key Insight of Amyloid Plaque Formation

SS Roy, R Ghosh, D Mukherjee, S Biswas… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular self‐association of monomers with multifaceted cross‐linkers, opens new
possibilities for the development of various supramolecular‐networks that enable to …

Novel Conjugates of Porphyrins and Peptides as Light-Responsive Molecules and Materials

P Dognini - 2024 - researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk
The conjugation of biological molecules with functional small molecules is a common
strategy in medicinal and biological chemistry to obtain compounds with improved …

Integrating In Vitro and In Silico Approaches to Gain Insight into the Mechanism of Amyloid Fibrillogenesis

MM Bilog - 2024 - academicworks.cuny.edu
Amyloid fibril formation, the hallmark of numerous amyloid-related diseases, has been the
subject of a vast number of scientific studies due to its pathological implications. Since the …

De novo designed aliphatic and aromatic peptides assemble into amyloid-like cytotoxic supramolecular nanofibrils

S Samui, S Biswas, S Basak, S Ghosh, K Muniyappa… - RSC …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Peptides are very interesting biomolecules that upon self-association form a variety of
thermodynamically stable supramolecular structures of nanometric dimension eg …